Nachgeschminkt: Sparkly Gold Cut Crease. Sort of.

I just thought about it the day before yesterday, today I just ever so slightly panicked when I looked up the deadline for handing and, guess what, it ends today! Obviously.

I am talking about a blog parade called “Nachgeschminkt” (“recreate”) by Der blasse Schimmerthis time; it is all about recreating a look chosen by the parade creators. To interpret yourself. For any further details just follow the link! And yes, obviously the picture I shared today on my Instagram was about this look.

I’ve participated with a look before earlier this year, when it was all about the Cranberry eyeshadow by MAC – I must say I still love this particular look!

This time a look with sparkly gold, a cut crease and a pop of colour was the chosen one. Personally, I always find it quite fascinating to actually recreate a look you’ve seen on a blog, on youtube. Needless to say you do not have to have any of the products the original creator used to achieve the same effects! To be completely honest with you, rummaging through your drawers, the hunt through your own collection for equivalent products makes for at least half the fun.

So, unlike the model look, I did not use even one MAC eyeshadow (I still stand by my opinion of them being ridiculously overpriced), but about all the same brushes that had been used:

The effect of the look really spoke to me, therefore I tried it – surprisingly enough you don’t even need a ton of products and it doesn’t really take that long to accomplish it!

I tried to follow her example and started out in the same order: First preparing the cut crease and against better judgement I used a pencil brush to map out the crease with the darker brwon. I cannot for the life of me tell you why but pencil brushes usually don’t work that well for me. Even if I barely touch the skin with it, blending like with feathery strokes, more often than not it sort of stutters across the lid. Pet peeve alert! It takes quite a lot of blending to remove those stuttering traces which might be the reason why my cut crease here isn’t as crisp as it is supposed to be. At least I know now to trust my intuition!

As for the actual lid colour I started out with the overly pigmented Gold shade from the LORAC Pro and then topped it off with the lighter, more sparkling gold shade from that KIKO palette. Which is where I came across that look’s major problem, for me at least: Not to blend that sparkle to far into the matte crease!

After painting a purposefully dramatic winged liner I went over it with a matte black shadow. Firstly, I wanted to make sure my eyeliner is as black as it can be and definitely matte (in contrast to the sparkling lid), secondly I tried to even out the inner part of the line with it – I usually don’t drag the eyeliner so far in which resulted in it not being as smooth.

The most fun part surely was that pop of green/teal near the tearduct area. I did set it with a green-goldish pigment but the main colour here is the result of the Zoeva pencil in Paradise, which is quite a nice match in my opinion. Since my eyes apparently are quite watery I had to watch out not to blend it too far down…

I even would have used falsies in this look, to make it even more dramatic, but since I got not a single pair with me here…which reminds me to get some…

All in all a quite a nice experience again – even if you aren’t doing the “creative” part, completing the make up job with an almost similar result is satisfying.

My conclusion, and I guess advice, is: Do never “trust” that the same technique, the same brush will give you the exact same result. Try it yourself respectively go with your gut feeling/experience. Nobody has absolutely identical eyes :)

So, ever took part in “Nachgeschminkt” yourself? Would you rather create yourself or interpret other looks? I am curious to see their next choice now! Reminds me to revive Sultry Thursday…